in her later years, she wrote for "the milwaukee sentinel." at that point, she is writing about her recollections, the good old days. she has a different perspective. we can glean so much about her from her letters. she talks about that there was nothing in the area, but she sat on the porch and listened to the winnebago indian tribe who had a burial site very close to here. she talked about the fur traders . she talked about fort howard and gives us a lot of insight as to what was happening in the community and how the community was changing. >> american history tv is in green bay, wisconsin. in 1634, french explorer john nicholas became the first european to discover lake michigan and wisconsin. he landed near green bay on an expedition to find a route from lake huron to the pacific ocean. he called the area green bay because of the area's waters. c-span city staff recently visited many sites showcasing green bay's history. learn more all weekend right here on american street tv. -- history tv. >> i tell people, this is the greatest story in

. >> the milwaukee sentinel journal joins us. who is going to win this governor's race. this is a a state really divided over scott walker. he has carved out a lead in the likely voters in the last major poll in this race. what's interesting about the poll is his gains came from not any big opinion shifts in the electorate as a whole but from intensity gap. reallyunder scores the role that turn out. >> what about the ads? how fierce. >> i am a cheese head. you wonder how much the impact allegation. whether she was forced out o. counter charges, questions about some of those sources and their political ties. that's really kind of raised the temperature of this race at the end. >> you know, looking back at the history of wisconsin ground game is important. undecides at this point. very few. but, again, that's why it's so important for democrats to try to kind of raise levels. we know that the governor's republican base is really loyal and really motivated and that's probably his political strong suit. >> if he wins. >> most people think scott walker wants to run for presid

some news on the campaign trail in wisconsin -- the milwaukee wisconsin journal sentinel reports former president bill clinton will be campaigning in milwaukee on friday for the democratic candidate in the race, mary burke. president clinton caret wisconsin of both as a show when someone try to help boost your candidacy as she runs in a tight race against governor scott walker who has won two statewide elections. the candidates and the wisconsin governor's race held their second and final debate last week. tossup and we will show some of the as that voters are seeing in the race and the one hour to base after that. >> mary burke lied about her jobs plan. turns out it was plagiarized. now she is at it again, attacking the scott walker's record on jobs. attacks that "the milwaukee journal sentinel" says are false. she is twisting the numbers and it's not the first time. the truth -- in the last year, wisconsin ranked third in jobs growth. wisconsin gave 100,000 jobs under scott walker. -- again 100 jobs under scott walker. we cannot trust mary burke. >> he made a pledge. 250,000 new jobs.

attacks that "the milwaukee journal sentinel" says are false.n the last year, wisconsin ranked third in jobs growth. wisconsin gave 100,000 jobs under scott walker. we cannot trust mary burke. >> he made a pledge. >> hundred 50,000 new jobs. -- 250,000 new jobs. >> and asked us to hold him up to it. dead last insin is midwestern job growth, temp out of 10. ?nd those 250,000 jobs not even close. broken promises, that lasting jobs. >> it has been called the light of the year. >> if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. >> and mary burke supports it. >> does not mean that the government with that he would start her to go to or which plans to have. millions of also doctors and their plans, mary burke says that she supports obamacare unequivocally and wants to expand it. wisconsin cannot afford medicines liberal married brooke liberal mary. >> know what a good idea? rooted thean expanded the earned income tax credit. you know who had a bad idea? scott walker. raising taxes on working families is not just that economics,

joining us from milwaukee is bill glauber for the milwaukee sentinel. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> two debates on a friday night. why? >> i guess they want to compete against high school football. actually the reason is when they came when they conclude the station to get the air time and frankly that is how the wisconsin broadcasters have done it for years, always a friday night debate. >> the first one taking place in wisconsin at the mayo clinic. explain the format of what you're looking for. >> well, the format is very stilted and it was the 1990s format, some might say 1970s, a moderator for panelists, questioning to reach of the participants, 92nd answers, 302nd rebuttals, long opening statements in two-minute closing statements at three minutes. it is going to be a stilted venue i thinking about be a lot of soundbites and sort of canvassing errors. >> governor walker faces a recall. he was little to overcome the campaign announced reelection battle. give us a sense of what is happening in this race. but to the polls tell you? >>

who told reporters quote i am tired of hearing about the minimum wage then from the journal sentinel in milwaukeeir reportedly told a republican field office on monday she didn't know why the election was so close. saying, quote, i don't want to say something about your wisconsin voters, but some may not be as sharp as a knife. republican senator played part of the comic precipice when asked about the polls. >> there are people that do that and do that pretty much for a living. they're somewhere between 60 and 65%. if anybody can mess this up, my side has the total capacity how to turn 65% if 25%. >> he sounds pretty confident in that, too. >>> right now i am joined by politico reporter lee munsel. >> good morning. >> voter turnout is expected to be very low. what is it going to take to get people to the polls. >> well, it's not surprising turnout would be low in a mid-term election. this time around the white house is making a get out the vote push. not the same as the initial obama campaign i get out and vote push but a smaller scale version of that. so they've reported a bunch of different cal

"the milwaukee journal sentinel" analyzed the numbers and found that wisconsin lagged the nation forrowth for the past 10 years, including governor walker's years and ms. burke's years in commerce. why shouldn't taxpayers expect better results? give me some plays that will allow the state to outperform the country. >> that is why i'm running for governor. we are not taking the steps to make sure that wisconsin has a thriving and growing economy. that is why i laid out in my plan five core strategies to make this work. these are five strategies that are unique to wisconsin, ones that i think will work here, that are the best ideas i gathered from across the country. two of them -- i could go on for a lot more than a minute 30 on this. it is on workforce training, college affordability. small businesses being able to grow. right now, we are 46th in the country in terms of new businesses started, and it is new business growth that actually creates 70% of jobs that are created. when we are in the bottom five of the country, it is not good enough. we have to make sure that we keep good pe

we since expanded and have the network of news organizations, like the milwaukee journal sentinel. and what journalists we do is policy fact checking. our site is on about policy fact checking. started back in 2007 acres we felt that there was not enough fact checking in political journalism. then, we have been doing just checked ot of the reality -- it is a database so people can go on our website and look at different topics, people, different races. all of our rint sources, so every report we do, we explain our reasoning, we documents we looked at -- we link to documents the ever possible -- and at with our ve a rating truth-o-meter. when something is false and ridiculous, we rated pants on fire. did that income from? >> back in 2007, we were trying to think of how we wanted to do ratings. at the end of the day, it is a helpful reader service. they know where the reporters and editors are coming from. we wanted a funny rating and one of the reporter said, how about pants on fire, so we went with it. >> how do you decide on a day-to-day basis what to research? >> we think about w

the milwaukee journal sentinel is false. she's hoisting the numbers and it's not the first time. the truth in the last year was ranked third in midwest job growth. the facts are wisconsin gained 100,000 jobs -underscore walker and we can trust mary burke. >> he made a pledge. >> 250,000 jobs by the end of her first term in office. did not assess to hold onto it. >> is this a campaign promise? of to be held to quick >> absolutely. >> wisconsin is dead last in job growth. >> most of the country when it comes to job growth. >> those 250,000 jobs, not even close. broken promises, dead last in jobs. scott walker's not working for you. >> it has been called the light of the year. >> if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. >> mary burke supports it. >> it doesn't mean the government was a witch doctors to go to her to have. >> while millions have lost their doctors in their plans, mary burke said she still supports obamacare unequivocally and wants to expand it. wisconsin can't afford not to send liberal mary burke. end of story. >> you know how to really

attacks the "milwaukee journal sentinel" say are false. she's twisting the numbers, and it's not the first time. the truth? in the last year, wisconsin ranked third in midwest job growth. the facts are wisconsin gained 100,000 jobs under scott walker and we can't trust mary burke. >>> he made a pledge. >> 250,000 new jobs by the end of our first term in office. >> and asked us to hold him to it. >> is this a campaign promise, something you want to be held to? >> absolutely. >> today wisconsin is dead last in midwest job growth, tenth out of ten. >> wisconsin lags behind most of the country when it comes to job growth. >> and those 250,000 jobs not even close. broken promises, dead last in jobs. scott walker's not working for you. >> it's been called the lie of the year. >> if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. >> and mary burke supports it. >> it doesn't mean that the government's going to tell you which doctors to go to or which plan to have. >> but millions have lost their doctors and their plans. mary bu

plagiarized and now she is at it again attacking scott walker's position on jobs, attacks the milwaukee journal sentinel says are false. she is twisting the numbers and it is not the first time. the truth? in the last year wisconsin ranked third in midwest job growth. the facts are wisconsin gained 100,000 jobs under scott walker and we can't trust mary burke. >> he made a pledge. >> 250,000 new jobs by the end of our first term in office. >> and asked us to hold him to it. >> is this a campaign promise, something you want to be held to? >> absolutely. >> today wisconsin is dead last in midwest job growth. tenth out of ten. >> wisconsin lags behind most of the country when it comes to job growth. >> those 250,000 jobs? not even close. broken promss? dead last in jobs. scott walker's not working for you. >> it's been called a lie of the year. >> if you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan. >> and mary burke supports it. >> it doesn't mean that the government is going to tell you which doctors to go to or which plan to have. >> while millions have lost their doctors and their pla

to keep up with campaign 2014 related issues the front page of the milwaukee journal sentinel out of wisconsin talks about latest polling in that state for governor. governor walker his democratic candidate challenger mary burke currently tied at 47% each. and that's from marquette university law school, which released the poll yesterday. both of these folks will debate this coming friday, live, 8:00. you can see that on c-span. again, our main channel, 8:00, the wisconsin governor's debate takes place then. and it's part of our coverage of campaign 2014. maxine, new baltimore, michigan, high there. caller: good morning, pedro. thank you for taking my call. first of all i have to say i do not trust this government. i do not trust it whatsoever. they have dropped the ball so many times and they've lied about the ebola to start with. i watched on tbs a special on the ebola, a man caught it in africa, all he did was touched the bed of a patient and he caught it. they don't even understand how this virus is transmitted. and now it's just -- it's mind-boggling to me, how they can say that

milwaukee is bill glauber. he is following the story for "the journal sentinel." thanks very much for being with us. >> thank you. >> two debates, both on a friday night. why? >> i guess they want to compete against high school football. actually, i think the reason is that's when they can clear the stations. that's where they get the air time. and, frankly, that's how the wisconsin broadcasters have done it for years, always a friday night debate. >> this first one taking place in eau claire, wisconsin, at the mayo clinic. explain the format and what you're looking for. >> well, the format is very stilted. i wrote that it was a 1990's format. some might say 1970's. a modwrator, four panelists, question to each of the participants, 90-second answers, 30-second rebuttals, long opening statements, two minutes closing statements, three minutes -- it's going to be a stilted venue, i think, and it will be a lot of sound bites and sort of canned zingers. >> governor walker faced his own recall. he was able to overcome that campaign. and now his re-election battle in wis

some news on the campaign trail in wisconsin -- the milwaukee wisconsin journal sentinel reports formerdent bill clinton

. >> joining us from milwaukee or writing for the sentinel bill glauber is with us.hank you. >> thank you. >> first things first if you elect me governor you'll have 1.$5 billion budget deficit, spending under control and budgets were a nightmare. be reversed all that more balanced and -- for a balanced budgets and securing the foundation to help all residents. education and health care and jobs and kids this recovery will last for generations. >> i am running for governor because rick snyder economy might work for a the economy but not the rest of michigan i fought to rescue the auto industry but there is so much to do. as governor i will cut middle-class taxes and get rid of tax breaks for companies that send their jobs overseas because our economy should work for everyone. not just the wealthy. >> jennifer grant:one of the largest tax increases in michigan history things to her senate leader. the boat to? he was called to go to guy in the senate and was also called of rock star. rock star? with 300,000 jobs lost and tripled the debt? he is leaving michigan drownin

. >> bill glauber from milwaukee, right for the journal sentinel. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> republican incumbent governor scott walker at his democratic challenger mary burke debate tonight. c-span will have live coverage at eight each and. a compilation of recent poll shows governor walker pulling ahead by less than two percentage points. >> debate coverage continues over the weekend. the u.s. senate race in iowa to fill the seat of retiring democrat tom harkin. >> now to the first debate between illinois democratic governor pat quinn and his republican challenger, bruce rauner. governor quinn has served as governor since 2009. of the then governor rod blagojevich was impeached and removed from office on corruption charges. "the cook political report" lists this race as a top -- also. this took place in peoria, illinois, courtesy of wtvp and runs about one hour. ♪ ♪ live from the wtvp studios on the peoria, illinois, riverfront this is the illinois gubernatorial downstate debate. this program is produced in partnership with the pub

in her later years, she wrote for "the milwaukee sentinel." at that point, she is writing about her recollections, the good old days. she has a different perspective.